Wikileaks: Podesta Exposed Obama's Minute-By-Minute Schedule, Location on Private Email Account

You can’t arrest someone who isn’t an American for treason. Regardless of whether you think the leaks are a good thing or a bad thing, it isn’t treason. If you or I had done it, then that argument could be made.

I’m not even sure if he’s broken any laws. If a foreigner living in another country does something we don’t like (hacks into our emails, listens to our phone conversation, etc.), we might charge him as a spy if he ever sets foot in the US, but we can’t charge him with breaking our laws because he is not subject to our laws.

Also treason (a word thrown about on FR a lot!) has very narrow specific US Constitutional meaning. Primarily it takes a state of war to exist between the US and another state power. For example according to current DOD legal beagles terrorist organizations are not “states” (in spite of what ISIS claims in being a “Caliphate”!) so no treason can be committed by someone helping them. That is covered by other laws. Hellary has primarily violated several espionage & document security handling statutes all bad bad bad for a normal person but so far apparently not for her! However it’s not technically treason!

Think of the poor young US Navy CPO who sent some selfies of himself in his bunk on a nuclear submarine. I think the classification level he violated was confidential, but he sent them to his pals hence a violation of a sworn oath to protect. Over classification, well maybe but not his job to decide.

And Assuage could guilty of US espionage or receiver of stolen US property statues. However he is as you pointed out not a US Citizen and currently not in US jurisdiction.

Back to why the Founding Father’s made the treason definition so narrow, look up Judge Jeffery & The Bloody Aussies.

Though at one time treason against an individual US state could occur and not necessarily be treason against the whole. It has since fallen out of the statue books or repealed.

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